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46 healthcare IT News ■ November 2008 www.HealthcareITNews.com LOOKaHEaD NOVEMbEr 3-4 - AHIMA Seminar: Renaissance for the 21st Century: Leading the Change to EHR, Chicago. 3-5 - IEEE BIBM 2008, Philadelphia. 4-6 - HL7 Educational Summit, Salt Lake City. 8-12 - AMIA 2008 Annual Symposium, Washington. 30-Dec. 5 - RSNA 2008, Chicago. QUOTED Rolanda Aiken BlueChoice HealthPlan of S.C. 34 Deb Bass NeHII 33 Lynn Edwards Bear Valley Comm. Healthcare 11 Karen Bell HHS 46 Leah Binder The Leapfrog Group 18 Judi Bonomi Rush-Copley Medical Center 18 Sue Bowman AHIMA 6 Floyd Bradd III Skyline Family Practice 21 Francois de Brantes Bridges to Excellence 3 Louis J. Burns Intel Corporation 46 Debra Carpenter Denver Health 18 Steve St. Clair Urological Services, Berkshires 22 Stephen Corbett Loma Linda University 16 Bill Culton Aspyra 45 Delos M. Cosgrove Cleveland Clinic 8 Devore Culver HealthInfoNet 4 Bill Davenhall ESRI 16 Justin Davidson Datamonitor 42 Justin Dearborn Merge Healthcare 41 Jill Dennis AHIMA 6 Phil Desrude Merge Healthcare 37 Gary Dickinson CentriHealth 4 Vince Doyle Denver Health 18 Ruthita Fike Loma Linda University 16 Gregory J. Forzley St. Mary’s Health Care 38 Tamara Fravel BlueChoice HealthPlan of S.C. 34 Brett Furst Covisint 37 Andrew Fuss RWMC 15 Diana Gehring Southern Coos Hospital 15 Tim Gibbons OneSource 37 John Glaser Partners HealthCare 4 Michelle Godin St. Mary’s Hospital 18 John Halamka Beth Israel Deaconess 8 David Hanekom BCBSND 33 Bruce Henderson Health Research Institute 33 Matthew Holt The Health Care Blog 3 Robert Homan Joint Township District Memorial 43 David Howes Martin’s Point Health Care 4,21 William F. Jessee MGMA 6 Joseph C. Kvedar Center for Connected Health 11 Pam Kehaly Aetna 33 Barry Kitch Massachusetts General 15 Nancy Koenig Merge Healthcare 37 Linda Kloss AHIMA 6 Mike Lawrie Allscript-Misys Healthcare 39 Mark Leavitt CCHIT 3 Michael Leavitt AHIC 3 Brett Lee Children’s Medical Center 42 Manoj Malhotra Salient Business Solutions 41 Steve Malik MedFusion 21 Keith Matsutsuyu NetChemistry 24 Nancy Mault Scenic River Health Services 22 Steve Martin BCBSNE 34 Terry McGeeney TransforMED 24 Theresa C. McLoud RSNA 3 Jackie Moen Northern Minnesota Network 21 Maureena Moran Group Health 15 Tracey Moorehead DMAA 34 Maureen Morley RSNA 8 John Morrissey CCHIT 3 Siva Namasivayam SCIOinspire 41 Scott Overholt The White Stone Group 18 Deborah Peel Privacy advocate 8 Paul Pettinato Signature Healthcare 22 Gerald Raymond Baptist Health 42 Dan Rode AHIMA 6 Mike Sappington gloStream 11 Allen Scales Emageon 18 Katie Sloan AAHSA 43 Keith Streckenbach OneSource 38 Marc Schwarz Oracle 41 Bill Tait Humana 33 Paul Terrill Sawtooth Mountain Clinic 22 Micky Tripathi MAeHC 1 Glen Tullman Allscripts-Misys Healthcare 3, 39 Tom Uustal BCBSTN 33 Maria Justina Villano Northeast Endo. Diabetes Center 22 Chris Virgilio Washington County Hospital 38 Don Ward Maine CDC 4 Michael Wescott Alegent Health Systems 34 Alan Whitehouse Oconee Regional Medical Center 11 Andrew M. Wiesenthal Kaiser Permanente Federation 16 Benjamin Wolin Waterfront Media 39 Hal Yee University of California 24 DEcEMbEr 4-5 - eHealth Initiative’s Fifth Annual Conference, Washington. 8-10 - The 4th Annual World Healthcare Innovation and Technology Congress (WHIT v.4.0), Washington. JaNUary 22-23 – Conference on Home Telehealth & Remote Patient Monitoring, Philadelphia. MOrE aT HealthcareITNews.com e ●Connect: LOOKahEaD 1108 Quotable “Until you engage providers, patients and the public on the value of e-health, you can build it but they won’t come.” – Karen Bell, director of the Office of Health IT Adoption, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. The William Blair Health Care IT Index (WBHCIT), an equal-weighted basket comprising 31 HCIT stocks, has been created to capitalize on trends in the industry that include a heightened demand for clinical information systems. The index aims to capture the aggregate stock performance of the majority of industry participants focused on healthcare IT. The chart above shows healthcare IT stocks compared with the Nasdaq Index between Sept. 22 and Oct. 24. For a list of the companies on the William Blair index, visit www.williamblair.com/WBHCIT. ●Connect: graphs 1108 e Healthcare IT stocks ON THE MOVE Nicholas procyk has been named senior vice president and chief investment officer for The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. James M. MacDonald retired from his position as chief operating officer and executive vice president of athenahealth. Jonathan Bush, president, chairman and CEO of athenahealth, Inc., will provide strategic direction and leadership of athenahealth’s operations until MacDonald’s successor is named. MacDonald will serve in an advisory capacity. richard McKnight, who recently retired as CIO of Charlotte-based Novant Health, has joined Systems Alliance’s advisory board. Martha smith, vice president of health plan network manage- Martha Smith ment for Health Net of California, has been named to the board of directors for the Integrated Healthcare Association. David L. Morgareidge was been named global practice leader of RTKL’s Operational Modeling and Simulation Group, a David L. component of the firm’s Health + Science Practice Group. The MED3000 Group, Morgareidge Inc. has appointed angela hoffman chief compliance and ethics officer. Frank J. Manzella has joined Emdeon as senior vice president of corporate development. Elizabeth smith will be joining Perot Systems’ government services division as the new executive vice president of sales. Planned Systems International has appointed robert J. Matz senior vice president for business development. The NeuroLogica Corp. has promoted David r. Webster vice president with responsibility for NeuroLogica’s international sales and marketing. The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology has named eight new commissioners David R. Webster to its 21-member board, including richard Benoit, director of ecosystem development at Dossia and senior program manager at Intel. richard a. Norling will retire as president and chief executive officer of Premier, the nationwide healthcare alliance, on June 30, 2009, the end of his current contract Tom Brigiotta term. Imprivata has named Tom Brigiotta as senior vice president of worldwide sales and field operations. Satyam Computer Services has appointed Daniel J. Krause head of U.S. business development for Satyam Healthcare.. Centric Health Resources, Inc. has appointed Warwick Charlton, MD, chief medical officer. The Huron Consulting Group has hired scott Kolesar and John Kavka to the company’s Health and Education Consulting practice, focused on healthcare information technology solutions. The Technology Solutions Company has hired Maqbool patel as vice president of software development. AngioDynamics, Inc. has elected Charles Orsatti to the board of directors. Orsatti succeeds robert Flaherty, who decided to not pursue Angela Hoffman re-election to the board. “Given the rise of chronic conditions and the rapid aging of the population, there has never been a more urgent need to improve quality and reduce costs through the optimal use of technology. - Louis J. Burns, vice president and general manager, Digital Health Group, Intel Corporation. HEALTHCARE IT NEWS (ISSN 1547-3139) is published monthly by MedTech Publishing Company, 71 Pineland Drive, Suite 203, New Gloucester, ME 04260. Phone: 207-6886270; FAX: 207-688-6273. Periodicals postage paid at New Gloucester, ME and additional mailing offices. Qualified subscribers receive HEALTHCARE IT NEWS free of charge. Non-qualified subscribers in the U.S. are charged $72/year. Canadian subscriptions $96/year. 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